{"id":4235,"date":"2014-01-30T01:38:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T01:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=4235"},"modified":"2014-01-30T01:38:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T01:38:38","slug":"finished-fellowship-tapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/4235\/finished-fellowship-tapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished “Fellowship” tapes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey Bro John,<\/span><\/p>\n

Well I finished the tapes of that Kentucky meeting back in August 1992 and there were some good testimonies, so sad though that some are not still here with us.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In Michelle’s testimony, she said, “I told Chuck last night while we were lying in bed that John Clark is down in our basement! It was a good feeling having him down in our basement.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>You spoke up and said, “I told him I wasn’t going to steal anything.” \u00a0Of course, that got a good laugh from everyone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Natalie E was talking about what God gave and did for her was “much more better.” To me that was sweet how she said it. She talked about dusting her house, God opens a part of your heart and cleans it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tammy testified that she was thinking more about what was wrong with her than about what God had fixed. \u00a0She asked her heart, “what’s the matter with you? You got to straightened up!\u00a0You stop being sad! \u00a0“She was really happy and being blessed.\u00a0She said she wasn’t going to hide out in her house any more, she was going to get next to somebody and not let those spirits work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bro John, you really encouraged those people with their sweet testimonies.\u00a0<\/span>Oh, and Kathy Tuck sang “I’ll take Jesus”.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In your message, you said: “Some groups of people are going to find themselves, like Brerrabbit – right in the middle of the briar patch.” \u00a0(I remembered you telling us that, and I’ve always liked that little picture in my mind).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You said:\u00a0“God is waiting for those who are hungry and thirsty for righteousness,\u00a0<\/span>and that hunger is\u00a0the call of the spirit of God. It’s always helped me in the past to\u00a0try to see and understand, not so much what people think they are after\u00a0, but what\u00a0their spirits are after. What’s the real goal?<\/span><\/p>\n

About 11 1\/2 years ago, early 1982, I conducted Bro Frank’s funeral, an 87 year old man in the Lord.\u00a0 There was a man at his funeral that invited me to go to Durham to preach.\u00a0I didn’t know the spirit he and his congregation\u00a0were under.\u00a0I didn’t know that\u00a0they had all been turned over by God to a delusive spirit, teaching that a person has already been raised from the dead when he received\u00a0 the holy ghost. <\/span>Paul wrestled against the same spirit with a few foolish saints in Corinth,\u00a0and Timothy dealt with some in Ephesus.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Then you told about your experience in the middle of a prayer meeting,\u00a0when God let you experience what it was like to be turned over to a “strong delusion”, when He “revealed” to you\u00a0that it was true that those who receive the Spirit ARE already raised from the dead, and how knowing the truth kept you.\u00a0You said Sister Atkinson saw a vision of\u00a0that congregation in Durham trying to spin a web around you, the way a spider does a victim in its web, and how it vexed your spirit while you were going through it with them. Your father, though, insisted that you continue to go\u00a0back and preach there, as they wanted, even though you didn’t want to, even telling you, “I think that’s John 1:1” (here you said you didn’t think you should go back meaning that was just your \u2013 John’s \u2013 opinion). \u00a0And you never got over being vexed until you got alone with God and he showed you the purpose of\u00a0that false doctrine: \u00a0that evil spirit was after your crown, and their crown!<\/span><\/p>\n

The spirit of Satan was robbing them of their hope, for with that doctrine they ceased” looking for Jesus to appear” and save them.\u00a0 Then, when God showed you that, you wanted to go back to preach because you had their answer. \u00a0It’s one thing to know you ought to resist spirits but it’s another thing for God to put\u00a0on your shield, your helmet, your war boots, and give you a sword. \u00a0Then, a man is\u00a0able to say, ‘This is the word of the Lord.'”<\/span><\/p>\n

You went on to say: “This past\u00a0Monday\u00a0night in Lexington at our prayer meeting, some are sick, some wanting the holy ghost, and\u00a0while down praying, the spirit of God was so sweet. \u00a0I heard myself praying in English for myself and for us, so wonderful I can’t even communicate the beauty of it. \u00a0God put it in my heart to pray! \u00a0That’s praying “according to the will of God”, and you can expect that to be done. \u00a0God opened up my heart to me and showed me how desirable fellowship is. That may not sound like a whole lot, but God has more to show us. \u00a0It’s like my soul smelled the fragrance of fellowship. \u00a0My soul just picked up on how sweet it is to God, how good and pleasant it is to God when “brethren dwell together\u00a0\u00a0in unity.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Bro John, I thought that was such a precious way you explained it, your soul smelled the fragrance of fellowship.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am so glad I cleaned out a closet recently and found these old tapes, among many years worth (which John David wants to look through), because I have been so blessed by hearing your message.\u00a0The only cassette player I had was an old, small one that works on batteries. \u00a0There is no rewind, only a fast forward button that doesn’t work. \u00a0But I was so hungry to hear this, it didn’t matter.\u00a0 If I wanted to hear something again, I just took the tape out, turned it over, played it a little bit and flipped it back over.\u00a0 I felt a real hunger for it; partly, because back in August 1992 I had put a note to myself on the tape case that said,” For Sheila, when she gets out of whack, ” but mainly because that message on Fellowship has been very sweet to my soul and so very good to hear again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you very much,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sheila<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hey Bro John, Well I finished the tapes of that Kentucky meeting back in August 1992 and there were some good testimonies, so sad though that some are not still here with us.\u00a0\u00a0 In Michelle’s testimony, she said, “I told Chuck last night while we were lying in bed that John Clark is down in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}